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"I am Shirley Sotloff. My son, Steven, is in your hands." So began Shirley Sotloff's emotional appeal to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terror group ISIS, on Aug. 27. The terror group had just released a video of a British-accented fighter sawing off the head of American journalist James Foley. At the end of the video, Shirley's son, Steven Sotloff, a 31 year old free-lance journalist who was kidnapped in Syria last August, was dragged into view and threatened with beheading, too. Shirley Sotloff continued, explaining that she has been studying Islam since her son's capture, and tried to reason with the ISIS terror leader. She even addressed him with the...

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"I am Shirley Sotloff. My son, Steven, is in your hands."
So began Shirley Sotloff's emotional appeal to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terror group ISIS, on Aug. 27. The terror group had just released a video of a British-accented...

Another video tape. Another slain American journalist. And threats of more macabre executions and violent retaliation aimed at the U.S. from Islamic State.
Steven Sotloff, 31, whose family lives in South Florida, had appeared in a video released by the...

Pope Francis telephoned the parents of the martyred journalist, James Foley, who was brutally beheaded by Islamist terrorists in Syria. I hope the pope's solace and comfort somewhat eased their pain. I imagine he is a very busy public servant and for...

Steven Sotloff ventured off to dangerous lands to bear witness.
This is what journalists do.
We go places — sometimes safe and glamorous, sometimes wretched and disturbing — to watch, listen, report. We tell the stories of others. We try to explain a...

The reported beheading of a South Florida journalist Tuesday rocked his family in Pinecrest and sparked calls for more action against the Islamic State militants taking responsibility for the deed.
A video purportedly showing the decapitation of Steven...

If a video posted Tuesday by the Islamic State militant group is authentic, it appears U.S. journalist Steven J. Sotloff is dead.Sotloff was abducted in Syria in August 2013. The grisly footage purportedly captures his beheading at the hands of his...

President Barack Obama gave vent this week to an uncharacteristic show of emotion over the barbaric beheading of American journalist James Foley by the militant jihadi group the Islamic State. He denounced the group as a "cancer" in the region...

The Islamic State militant group released a video today purporting to show the beheading of U.S. hostage Steven J. Sotloff.
A masked figure in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned...

In what is becoming an increasingly public negotiation over the fate of an American journalist, the mother of Steven J. Sotloff, who is being held by the militant group Islamic State, released a video Wednesday pleading for his release.
Shirley...

The mother of American journalist James Foley, who was beheaded by Islamic militants, said on Tuesday her son gave his life to expose the suffering of the Syrian people and she asked his kidnappers to release their other captives.
"He was an...

End cowardly violence
The consistent, perduring violence in our Central Florida communities is alarming and depressing.
We know that those on the front lines of law enforcement are doing all they can to prevent and respond to this culture of violence...

The parents of an American journalist beheaded by the Islamic State group say they are surprised a college-educated, London-raised man is the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" from the video of their son's slaying but also realize...

The unmasking of Islamic State militant "Jihadi John" as a Londoner who had repeatedly been questioned by security services sent shock waves through Britain Friday, with Prime Minister David Cameron stepping in to defend British spy craft....

The government — and the press — failed to do enough to save the life of the freelance journalist who was the first American killed by Islamic State militants, James Foley's parents said at a university forum Thursday. John and Diane Foley echoed the...

The knife-wielding militant who appears in a string of grisly beheading videos, his face concealed by a black balaclava and speaking in British-accented English, has come to personify the brutality of the extremist group Islamic State.
Nicknamed...

Global journalism organizations are urging protections for freelance and local correspondents as they face increasingly deadly dangers in the field, with the beheading of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto by Islamic State extremists the latest example. Media...

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WASHINGTON With blindfolds to symbolize the plight of captives, the parents of missing journalist Austin Tice on Thursday launched a campaign to raise awareness of his ordeal and to push for reforms to U.S. hostage policies. Marc and Debra Tice,...